Part one : The politics of hysteria. The Truman doctrine : Pax Americana --
The Republican catharsis --
Espionage fever : myth of the vital secret --
The states and subversion --
Part two : The machinery of repression. The Congressional inquisition --
The FBI and the informers --
The Constitution concussed in the courts --
Part three : The assault on the left. Bureaucratic persecution --
The Communist Party goes under --
Hell in Pittsburgh --
The deportation terror --
The golden curtain : passports and immigration --
Part four : purge of the Civil Service. The Federal Civil Service --
The Armed Forces : a code of dishonor --
The State Department and the China experts --
The UN, brief refuge --
State and city employees --
Part five : Pacification of the working class. How to break a union --
How to fire a worker --
United Electrical Workers on the rack --
On the waterfront --
Part six : Purge of the professions. Purge of the "reducators" --
New York teachers on trial --
Newspapermen and libraries --
Science : sanity or "security"? --
Part seven : Show business : the blacklists. Hollywood --
Radio, television and theater --
Conclusion --
Appendix A : undercover agents --
Appendix B : The Tillett survey : the predicament of the discharged teacher --
Appendix C : The Hollywood blacklist.